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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 21, 1988.

Here's that girl again--Pamela Burke

I Laughed At These Love

Love Letters!

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Some women keep love letters for years and years. Bound in pink ribbon, the little packet lies in a drawer, the words fading as time passes. And fading even more rapidly after every time they're taken out to be cried over.

"Try and like me a little, darling, "Mark.”

You must have read dozens of that again. stories of tear-spotted love letters. They're supposed to become.even more precious and magical as the years go by.

Well, I don't tie my love letters in. pink ribbon. I don't even keep all of them.

But now that the year's drawing to a close, I've been rummaging through a red-and-gold cardboard box that held Christmas cards once ----and I've found a few love letters. They made me smile when I first read them. They make me lough to-day.

I mean, is there any modern girl alive who could help smiling at I'm reading nonsense like this? from the first letter I came across:

"Pam, old thing.

"I expect you'll be surprised to get a letter from me so soon. But I haven't been able to sleep well to night. I know, darling, I only left you a few hours ago. Wasn't the dance marvellous!

“Before I turn in and try to get forty winks, I want to tell you that I feel now I was a beast and a cad just before we parted. Will you for give me darling?

"How right you were in telling me off! I'll never, never behave like

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Oh, most affecting!

Can't you just see the poor dar- ling, pacing up and down his bed- room, tortured by conscience?

Of course, he's sorry. Of course, he feels, a cad and a beast.

Until the next time.

In fact, I heard later that darling Mark was hinting vaguely at the “hot time” he had with me after that dance. It was hot all right, but not in the way he hinted to his pre- cious friends.

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Well, I can laugh at that. I could scream at the next letter. I'll quote a little of it and let you try and visualise the kind of man who wrote it.

"Sweetest one, "I'm sending

you some flowers to-morrow-I hope they'll be a token of my love. I know we've not known each other very long, but do believe me when I say I've fallen for you.

"Perhaps you think I say that to all the girls. I don't--honestly.

"It was sweet of you to let me kiss your dear lips for the first time. I'll never, never forget that moment.

"Oh, if you only knew how I'm longing to hold you in my arms again. "Woo-wooz.”

Now, can't you see "Woo-wooz”? A weak-chinned, anaemic young man who is trying to grow a Guards' moustache to hide his girl- ish mouth?

Last time she wrote about her views of men. Protesting letters poured in. This time she ridicules the love letters men write. What do YOU think. of HER for laughing at the letters men in love with her have written?

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Actually, he's six feet tall. He weighs something less than young elephant. He plays Rugby on Saturdays, wears plus-fours, smokes a pipe, and of all the "hearties" I've ever met is the

“heartiest””, of all.

Ah, here's another.

A very languid young man wrote this-to-me

"Beloved," he begins.

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"I believe you're a girl who un- derstands straight speaking. Well, here we are. You've been trying to make a fool out of me. Oh, yes, you have. Don't deny it.

"But when we go out to-night-I hope you remember the date; I en- tered it in your little green book... I'm going to ask you a question. I think you know what it is, and I have ready believe, darling, you'll an answer that will make me the happiest man in the world.

"I was fond of you at the start. Now I love you". I'll never be happy without you,

"With all my love,

""Terry."

I scared that man until he nearly jumped through his white collar.

Because these hard-headed young business men are always the ones who write impulsive letters that are later read aloud in breach of pro- mïse cases.

He admitted-he'd been a little rash, asked me to forget the letter "temporarily,"

Instead I told him I was "filing it for future reference" He's still a little bit uneasy about that passion- ate love letter!

Well, that's the best of the little bunch.

Into the fire they all go in a min- ute or two

For men-most of 'em, anyway are not over-bright at the best of times.

But when they sit down to write a love letter

"A few days ago I knocked over a whole bottle of iodine on to one of my best white table-cloths. I did not know what to do, but covered the stain (a tremendous one) with

"I have just been reading song he and then washed the whole

poems by Keats. Do you read Keats,

in warm, very soapy, water. Pamela? You ought to. For your It did the trick, and it is impossible eyes remind me of those pools of to see any stain now. clear....

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I have a sudden- vision of his "Put 2oz. o of glue in an earthen- pale-blue watery eyes. He's one of

and cover with water. ware jan those fellows who like to lie flat Place in

saucepan and dis- on the grass, his head on one's knees, solve. When the glue has dis- looking upward._____

solved; empty into

gallon

And here is the letter that hand- of warm. water and place the ed me the biggest laugh of all. He garment in It for twenty min was one of these go-getter young utes, covered with a cloth. Squeeze

·business man.”

the garment and rinse in several It was ing, and say to keep him guess- changes of warm water. Iron on the

one Aprit morning, wrong side.

side. You can do this to stif THIS came through the letter box fen serge, gabardine, tweeds and

"My dear Pamela,

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